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Digital Teaching: Introduction to Teaching with Technology in Liberal Education
Faced with a flood of available instructional technologies, faculty members must make difficult decisions about which tools will help them and their students best achieve their teaching and learning goals. Just as faculty and students need technologies that make sense for liberal education, their campuses need innovative pedagogies that advance their missions and priorities. Participants in this workshop will examine the instructional technologies available at the host campus, connect them to proven teaching and learning practices, and explore how they fit within the context of liberal education. For each technology, workshop leaders will present best practices from the host campus and elsewhere, and a technologist representing the local campus will lead hands-on practice with the technology. Participants will leave with a plan for how to use at least one new technology to advance their teaching goals and enhance their students’ learning experiences.
Special thanks to both Lake Forest College and Eugene Lang College for partnering with NITLE to pilot this workshop for our community of participating colleges.
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Teaching Digital Natives: Strategies for Digital Immigrants
Today’s first-year students arrive on campus as digital natives with high expectations about technology. For "digital immigrant" faculty and staff, learning how to use new technologies in order to keep up with rising expectations may seem to demand too much time. In this workshop, participants will have the opportunity to raise their concerns about the appropriate place of technology in academic life and learn about successful experiences that digital immigrants like themselves have had in using technology to enhance their teaching or scholarship. The workshop will help participants find and use appropriate technology tools for information management, communications, organization, and productivity. Finally, participants will have a chance to develop strategies for effectively managing time, student expectations, and technology.
Special thanks to Knox College for partnering with NITLE to pilot this workshop for our community of participating colleges.
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Emerging Technologies and the Liberal Arts Campus
Web 2.0, gaming, mobility—the sheer size and accessibility of cyberculture have transformed teaching and doing research at every educational level. In this workshop participants will consider the pedagogical applications of a wide range of inter-related emerging technologies, including such "Web 2.0" projects and services as podcasting, video blogging, social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and collaborative writing platforms, as well as wireless and mobile technologies and computer gaming. After exploring the landscape in which these emerging technologies rapidly evolve and interact, participants will spend the afternoon considering how to integrate one or two related emerging technologies into their teaching and/or academic support work. Participants will leave the workshop with a learning-centered plan that uses at least one emerging technology to promote student learning and engagement.
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Software to be downloaded:
1. Rise of Nations, free download of demo (PC: http://www.microsoft.com/games/riseofnations/downloads.aspx
2. Second Life, free download of desktop client (Mac or PC: https://secondlife.com/community/downloads.php).
Participant prerequisites: None
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Teaching Science in the Information Age
How can science educators avoid drowning in a rising tide of new discovery, distributed data, and instant communication while taking full advantage of today’s computing technology? A growing array of digital technologies is now available to organize and communicate scientific information in class and conference room alike. In this introductory workshop, participants will explore a range of digital applications for data exploration and analysis, content presentation, and mapping. Opportunities for virtual class activities and simulation will also be presented with an emphasis on open-source materials available on the World Wide Web. Participants will leave with an overview of emerging technologies relevant to science education and pedagogy as well as the training necessary to learn and use them in a meaningful manner.
This workshop will benefit faculty and technologists seeking an overview of available technologies for the science classroom and an ability to make informed choices when selecting these resources.
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Technical requirements for host campus
Participant prerequisites: none
Bring this workshop to your campus: guidelines on requesting Workshops To Go
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